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People & Their Terms
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Literature
Undergraduate 1
03/05/2014

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-"Horizon of Expectations"
-tries to make bridge between history and reader
-public understands genre and has certain expectations

-text appeal to a given era 

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Han Robert Jauss, Toward an Aesthetic of Reception
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-There needs to be a personal sense of literature

-Un-selfconscious, spontaneous, honest reaction

-Reader's experience in reading the work is what gives it meaning

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Louise Rosenblatt, Literature as Exploration
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-Influenced by Kant and Hegel

-"Imagination asa shaping power and unifier of vision"

-Elicits delight from part to whole

-Organic form grows from the author's subject and materials

-Thoughts=flower germ=seed sprouting

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Coleridge, Defense of Poetry
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-"Orderly arrangements of parts" that are treated as a whole

-New criticism [formalism]

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Aristotle, Poetics
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-"Old historicism" and textual scholarship
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Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticisms
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-Textual scholarship: to establish an "authentic text" (author's intention)
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James Thorpe, Principles of Textual Scholarships
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-Based on Coleridge's theory

-Lyric Poem and short tales/stories

-Can transmit a unified effect

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Poe, The Philosophy of Composition
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New critic
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Stanley Fish, Literature in the Reader
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-"Art of fiction"

-Fiction is a fine art

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Henry James
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-Concept of Objective Correlative

-A set of objects (situation or change of events) which shall be the formula of a particular emotion

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T.S. Eliot
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Main authors of formalist criticism
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Kant and Hegel
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Founding father of New Criticism
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John Ransom
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Intentional fallacy: meaning outside the text is irrelevant
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William Wimsett
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Affective fallacy: discounts the reader's reaction or input
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Monroe Beardsley
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-Relativism

-Perceiver plays an active role in the making of meaning

-Ideas about conceptual and constructed nature of knowledge

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Albert Einstein
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